If you want to know exactly who this Hardcore Eddie is, all you have to do is to read on. “Tell us about your role in the upcoming “Transformers 3″?

Lester Speight : I am not sure if you know but “Transformers 3″ has just eclipsed “Titanic” as the largest budgeted film ever. $400 million and still going north! We are totally taking over downtown Chicago. The city is buzzing and it is crazy around here.

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I play Hardcore Eddie. Tyrese’s character Robert Epps calls me in. I was in a war with his father. I always told his dad I would look out for him and watch his back. I am doing all the heavy shooting, rocket launchers and kicking ass. Hardcore Eddie is old school soldier who has seen it all and done it all. I am just kicking ass and blowing up shit.

if a human destroys starscream in the TF3 movie then that'll be the worse thing ever.

a awesome & powerful decepticon like starscream deserves a warriors death. by warriors death i mean starscream getting destroyed my megatron or a powerful autobot like Movie Ironhide.

i'd envision the ultimate starscream death in TF3 . Would involve a 5 minute all out hand to hand combat with firing weapons between ironhide & starscream. with both characters dying after the fight is over. perhaps with movie megatron standing over starscream & yanking his spark out & calling him a weakling cry baby.

I'm just not sure a monster budget is the best of plans. Lots of movie articles this year about how movie attendance was down this year to the worst levels in over a decade. The big 4th of July release The Last Airbender didn't place in the 10 earners and action in general wasn't doing too hot this year since the top three earning films were Alice In Wonderland, Toy Story 3, and Shrek Forever After.

Unless the current trend changes for some reason next year it could be harder to earn the big bucks for a third time. Just looks like in an age when value is the gold standard Hollywood missed the boat by increasing prices with 3D so people are saying heck I'll just stay home and watch TV. With increasing improvement in TV special effects it's starting to look like the place to turn for story telling.

I would never blame cameramen for taking too big a slice of the pie. That's about one of the most replaceable jobs on a production. But I'm sure Bay himself, as well as central characters like Shia will pocket a hefty wad of cash for their troubles.

Didn't Bay take a salary cut in order to fund more robot screentime in the first movie though?

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say Hardcore Eddie will get have as much screentime as Epps and Lennox always have. Though he probably will be more comic relief than the two. With his character, it's more and more believable he'll be able to kill the Cybertronian.

Its Terry Freakin Tate, quite possibly the greatest personality to emerge in entertainment in years. If he's given a Terry Tate-like persona on screen, I will gladly cede some 'bot action for Mr. Tate.

What? That 10 second sequence with Prime talking over it? I find that very hard to believe, where did you hear that?

I pray that 400 Million isn't just lining the pockets of talentless "actors" and drunken cameramen. How about some steady camerawork and more robot fights this time? There was a good 40 minute section of ROTF (following the forest scene) where I nearly fell asleep in the cinema.

I would never blame cameramen for taking too big a slice of the pie. That's about one of the most replaceable jobs on a production. But I'm sure Bay himself, as well as central characters like Shia will pocket a hefty wad of cash for their troubles.

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$400 Million dollar budget. I find that a little hard to believe that Paramount would greenlight a movie for that much no matter what franchise. Even Avatar didn't cost that much before marketing and such. I don't buy it at all. That would mean that Paramount is expecting TF3 to make at least $800 million worldwide just to breakeven on production costs.

I don't doubt it at all. In an uncertain world, Transformers is about as close to a sure thing as they come. Studios seem increasingly reliant on megabudget 'tentpole' movies. And knowing how Michael Bay rolls, a good portion of the budget is probably already part-financed by numerous product placements and endorsements.